> on 01-29-2010, David Kelly wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Clayton Scott Kern wrote:
>> > I just upgraded to FBSD 8.0 from 6.4 and I'm having a problem with
>> > sendmail passing email to procmail. I only use this combination for
>> > email from root's cron jobs. Right now emails to me from cron go to
>> > /var/mail/ckern1.
>>>> [...]
>>>> > I created the cf file using make cf, then make install and make
>> > restart.
>>>> OK, but did the procmail enhancements make it in the generated .cf file?
>>>> > What have I missed. This is the same setup on 6.4 and it worked fine.
>>>> If making procmail available (or mandatory) for all users I can see
>> justification for what you are trying. But for just one user why not
>> keep it simple with a "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" in /etc/aliases?
>> I aliased root to me and now it works. Thank you for the tip.
>> I set up sendmail this way years ago, before I discovered fetchmail,
> procmail, getmail & maildrop.
>> I would like to get away from sendmail or any other MTA for that matter,
> but
> never found solution for handling the emails generated by the system.
Check out DragonFlyBSD's dma(1). It's designed just for this purpose.
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Matt Emmerton